There is one alone, without a second; indeed, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he does not ask, For whom do I labor and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity; indeed, it is an evil task.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is widespread among men:

A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner devours it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

All this I have seen, and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.

And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.

Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.

Then Lot chose for himself all the area around Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated each from the other.

And he brought back all the property, and also brought back his brother Lot and his possessions, as well as the women and the people.

And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Get up, get out of this place; for Jehovah is destroying this city! But to his sons- in-law he seemed to be joking.

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the manner of all the earth.

And they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

And they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

And the firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause,

we shall find all sorts of precious stuff, we shall fill our houses with plunder;

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

There is one who scatters, yet increases more; but the one who withholds more than is right, tends to poverty.

The blessed soul will be made fat; he who waters shall also be watered himself.

In that day a man shall throw his idols of silver and gold, which they made each man to bow down to, to the moles and to the bats;

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity; to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to be lacking.

But the noble devises noble things; and by noble things he shall stand.

Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah. But all the earth shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy. For He shall make a complete and speedy end of all those who live in the land.

Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully.

So he said, I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger, and there I will gather all my fruits and my goods.

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?

He also said to His disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.

Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

So he called every one of his master's debtors to him, and said to the first, How much do you owe my master?

Then he said to another, And how much do you owe? So he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill, and write eighty.

And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when it fails, they may receive you into eternal dwellings.

Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true?

No servant is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. It is not possible to serve God and mammon.

So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, You still lack one thing. Sell everything that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me.

But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor; and whatever I have taken from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.

But those who purpose to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, for which some being greedy, have strayed from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your calamities that are coming upon you.

Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.